MANILA - An alliance of church leaders and labor organizations is advocating for a pay increase for the country’s workers amid the soaring inflation rates.
The Church People-Workers Solidarity (CWS) said that workers deserve “substantial wage increase” for their toils and services.
“CWS strongly emphasizes the justness, urgency, and doability of living wage in the midst of economic hardships,” said its chairperson Bishop Gerardo Alminaza in a statement for May 1 Labor Day.
Raising the minimum wage at this time, according to the bishop, is about dignity and justice.